The Natural and the Social : Uncertainty, Risk, Change [2 ed.] 9781136891526, 9780415329699

The age in which people in the West have treated society and nature as essentially separate matters is at an end. Enviro

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Climate Change In The Media: Reporting Risk And Uncertainty 9780755694525, 9781780765884
Climate Change In The Media: Reporting Risk And Uncertainty 9780755694525, 9781780765884

Scientists and politicians are increasingly using the language of risk to describe the climate change challenge. Some re

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Risk And Uncertainty 9781845443108, 9781845441500
Risk And Uncertainty 9781845443108, 9781845441500

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain (Pliny the Elder, AD 23-79).This issue is a themed issue

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Living with Uncertainty: Social Change and the Vietnamese Family in the Rural Mekong Delta 9789814620277
Living with Uncertainty: Social Change and the Vietnamese Family in the Rural Mekong Delta 9789814620277

This book is one of the first ethnographies written on the life of farmers in rural Southern Vietnam since the economic

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Risk and Uncertainty in the Art World 9781472920300, 9781472902900
Risk and Uncertainty in the Art World 9781472920300, 9781472902900

This edited book offers the first complete overview of risk in the art market by bringing together contributions from a

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Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action 9781853837708, 9781134203024
Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action 9781853837708, 9781134203024

Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever more complex and powerful technologies. In

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Strategic Risk Leadership: Engaging a World of Risk, Uncertainty, and the Unknown 9780367436308, 9781003006220
Strategic Risk Leadership: Engaging a World of Risk, Uncertainty, and the Unknown 9780367436308, 9781003006220

Modern risk management as practiced today faces significant obstacles—we argue—primarily due to the fundamental premise

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Adult Safeguarding Observed: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty 9781447357315
Adult Safeguarding Observed: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty 9781447357315

Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect is a core area of social work practice but knowledge of how social worke

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Pandora’s Risk: Uncertainty at the Core of Finance 9780231525411
Pandora’s Risk: Uncertainty at the Core of Finance 9780231525411

For the most part, markets don't trade on changes in risk. They trade on changes in beliefs about risk, and in the

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Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty: Studies of Social Phenomena and Social Theory Across 6 Continents (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty) [1st ed. 2022] 9783030951665, 9783030951672, 3030951669
Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty: Studies of Social Phenomena and Social Theory Across 6 Continents (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty) [1st ed. 2022] 9783030951665, 9783030951672, 3030951669

This book provides a global perspective on COVID-19, taking the heterogenous realities of the pandemic into account. Con

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Living with Uncertainty : Social Change and the Vietnamese Family in the Rural Mekong Delta [1 ed.] 9789814620277, 9789814620291
Living with Uncertainty : Social Change and the Vietnamese Family in the Rural Mekong Delta [1 ed.] 9789814620277, 9789814620291

This book is one of the first ethnographies written on the life of farmers in rural Southern Vietnam since the economic

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